Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-09
TIE DEAD ALIVE.
wbv People 10 Not Recover Con-
WIZ sciousncss in the Grave

,.rhora ia no excuse for any one DelhS
s,,;uo y said DR.. W. A. Hammond.
pu1.s uortar had called on him in reference
,nr,al alive of Miss Stickney, OF
y, Minneapolis, who was taken out Oh a
A 1t and found to be in trance state
onG aid not die until several weeks aiter
her funeral. 5n +ho of4ica in his
Diioncp. A couple OF wax cahuiss
ies nnad in sconces on his desk. Inc wars
rare hidden by crowded oooho ,'H''':
Iround the room were scattereo quaiH ~
csrveu s, Ul them. The physician him.
years years = IN ore that might have come from
sell sS no Um of a church. Its straight
me 80 reached high above his massive
sun 0"J Ga was in full evening dress, anG
lorn lated with little silver cimeter
geesi0 uaner cutter while he spoke: A
OF YIN was stretched on the bare moor,
uS i,h the head scowling saVageV. II
WIN ~ W. dark in the room, except on tne
was . Eer' tshle. where the shaded light
Wins VIZ 80 The chairs, bookcases and
i iedo 6 ehle articles made fantastlc
dgures in the gloom. ..no 20 mo
No y he continued; there Is no
oxcrse for 1t. The tests OF DEAN nave
saon brought down to SUCH nice Point
vi any competent physician woulu nave
W. difioulty in accurately determining
wbetber or not death na0 CaKen plsco:
HDoes decomposition always seC III
after deathW dris mt
.-Iar or oouse YOU can freeze 1t ana
lIoISI IT. for wears before it will decompose,
i 49, "a fan are kept frozen for market.
rhn salmon that you eat now We're
na"obt last spring and have been kept
fro1en ever since. They are just rs
S0d'" BURIAL ALIVE.
uDo Won imagine that there is any
,o,nJetion to the belief of many that
noonIe are sometimes buried aliVeW
PV .VRh have no doubt of it. [ have
Known of it's being done, but it is not by
anS means OF frequent Occurrence-not
nearly so frequent as many people
imagine. The physician is entirely to
blanc when IT does occur. The fact that
bodies have been found turned over in
the coffins leads people to believe that
thev were buried alive. But that's not
90 II is probably the work of the gases
coming from the body. Pentup In a coffin
thew become very powerful, and 1t 10
almost singular that they do not move
bodies around more than they do"
"Then you don't take any stock IN the
stories of men who come to life under
the ground, of their terrible struggles to
get free and their horrible death at
lastp
GALL BOSH."
"That's all bosh. Poe wrote of grave
Yards trembling with the struggles OF
the buried alive. That's all bosh, too.
When people are buried alive, as they
certainly have been, they never wake up
to know it. When in a trance state their
vitality must be so weak that when they
begin to regain consciousness and TO
attempt TO breathe they die of suffocation
Immediately and never know that they
came to life again. Buried for dead,
they practically are dead"
THAT'S cOnsoling, at any rate" said
the reporter, who was beginning to feel q
little "creepy" in the gloomy room, that
in his distorted Imagination began to
seem like the interior of tomb. The
doctor did not look unlike Father Time
as he waved his cimeter.
This Miss Stickney was undoubtedly
in trance state when she was buried"
continued DR.. Hammond. "Were it not
for the water around her heart she might
have regained consciousness"
FREEZING EXPERIMENT.
lis 1t possible to freeze a human being
up for any length OF time and then restore
consciousness p
mo; NOT with a human being. 1t can
be done with some OF the lower order OF
ANIMALS. Frogs are the highest grade to
which 1t can be carried sue
cessfully."
"Why can't 1t be done to men ?"
because, no matter now warm or cold
the atmosphere ia, the temperature OF a
human being in good health is always 9S
degs. in life. Reduce that temperature
TO the freezing point and it would kill the
person. Now, the temperature of frog
Is always the same as the surrounding
AL Ii the mercury goes up to ITO dogs.
le frogs temperature goes up there too,
Without doing him any harm. In the
same way II Will go down to zero and
Inc frog Will not mind 1t. | have frozen
frog solid in a block OF ice and after
some time lhawed him out, and he would
Jump all around the room. A frog is
very hard to kill. You can takes his
aeart out and he will still live. Cut his
mead Oh, TICKLE him on one side with a
straw, ana ne will draw up the leg on
'naI sue ana push the straw away"
Is lhat purely mechanical action? ?"
WHERE A GIRLS BRAINS ARE.
mo it's because a frogs brains are
not all In his head, some of them are in
MS spinal column, and it is the latter
suat ulrects MS legs. For that matter. |
oeneEe, the brains OF human being are
, ny al III Inc mead either. A girl plays
o.e piano ana carries on conversation
at me same time. The brains in her SHINE
su'erh tne action of her hands and the
Dla,hs IN ner head allow her to talk.O
Is IL possible for men to 20 into
frances that could be mistaken for
ro les; IL Is quite certain that an an.
palenI cessation Of all the vital functions
NO, n,e!!, Jake place without the entire loss of
; n which would leave the Organism
en- .ns condition OF dead body to be
~ oPgeeuIly dlsintegrated by the Operation
sto tue en- or physical agencies. The
tbst ~ y. syhcope Is at times 30 complete
reyos Sue nearps action cannot be per-
obserrd nVr any respiratory movements be
for ~ oeu, I'll power Of movement being
has I S une abolished, and yet recovery
could n.anSOusly taken place, which
action hy DC the case ii all vital
auther,iaaao Deeh suspended. The best
Col, Torns'eu case OF this kind is that Of
part Of ,h"s mat occurred in the early
r TN. Oi this century and of which ~
''''u mas about lost sightJ'
r.. INTO A TRANCE AT WILL,
who ~ vI 10 described by DR.. George Cbevna
ColoraI s au eye witness. He saws that tho
OF gGGseessed the remarkable Caeultv
pleasure ~, nlinself IN q trance al
TO thro3 aue neart ceased apparently
seemed al an MS MS bidding; respiration